I have an old landline phone. From what I understand, I will have to disconnect my receiver and cord from my phone, plug it into the headset base, and plug the corded headset base into the phone where the receiver used to be plugged into. Is this right? null

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Paul · Accepted Answer

Yes, if your phone only has 1 jack for the handset, then you have to replace your handset with this.

You can buy a splitter that turns the 1 jack into 2 jacks and then you'd have both plugged in at the same time, but when you answer the phone both the handset and headset would be active unless the splitter has a switch on it that would only make 1 jack active at a time.

If both the handset and headset are active together, the sound quality would suffer. So my suggestion would be to look for a splitter with a switch or unplug the headset when you're done using it and plug the handset back in.

There are also phones with 2 jacks on them, but buying one would probably be the most expensive solution.

I found a splitter in BestBuy but it doesn't have a switch. You'd have to look elsewhere if you want to use that solution.

I wasn't able to find a phone in BestBuy with 2 headset jacks (at least not as an advertised feature), so you'd have to look elsewhere if you want to use that solution.

Muddog · Answer

Your right. The unit works great.

“I have an old landline phone. From what I understand, I will have to disconnect my receiver and cord from my phone, plug it into the headset base, and plug the corded headset base into the phone where the receiver used to be plugged into. Is this right?”

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